H648: John Lowell (1769-1840)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H648

People

Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
John Lowell (1769 - 1840)

Title

John Lowell (1769-1840)

Other Titles

Former Title: John Lowell, Jr.

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1824

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304993

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.5 x 64 cm (30 1/8 x 25 3/16 in.)
framed: 96.5 x 83.8 x 8.9 cm (38 x 33 x 3 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: verso of frame, upper right: [printed:] TO BE ATTACHED TO BACK OF FRAME. / Title, [handwritten:] John Lowell / [printed:] Name of Owner, [handwritten:] John Lowell / [printed:] Residence, [handwritten:] Chestnut Hill, [illegible] / [printed:] Name of Artist, [handwritten:] Gilbert Stuart / [printed:] Value, [handwritten:] $2,500

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

John Lowell (1769-1840), to his son, John Amory Lowell (1798-1881), to his son, Judge John Lowell (1824-1897), to his son, John Lowell., Esq.; to his son, Ralph Lowell (1890-1978).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Estate of Ralph Lowell, 1978

Object Number

H648

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. I, pp. 491-92, no. 509; vol. II, ill. p. 304
• Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 252, cat. 1350
• Diana L. Eck, Hanging Around Lowell House: The Portraits of Lowell House, brochure (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 2, ill
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 33, 194, 461, cat. 428, ill.

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